Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the court held that marriage as an institution is , by definition , the association of someone of the male sex with someone of the female sex , gender having no relevance . |
| 2 | If the Girls were ‘ Tillerized ’ into thinking of nothing but the Tiller organization , so was Jennie . |
| 3 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 4 | A good deal of it to the east of the Cherwell remains in use as a main road ( A41 and A4095 ) , the only important break in the line being caused by the growth of the Saxon town of Bicester , a mile to the north , in place of the now-vanished Romano-British town of Alchester . |
| 5 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |
| 6 | They live only in warm parts of the world , the bulk of them in the tropics . |
| 7 | Victor Wellington said there was a ring of yours on the dead woman 's left hand . ’ |
| 8 | I see , so that measures the speed of them across the screen this way you can time it . |
| 9 | ( 3 ) There may be a time lag between the occasion of the alleged rape and the reporting of it to the police . |
| 10 | As you probably read in the quality press , FIMBRA are always being taken to task for er not spotting investment groups that have gone too far , er and er when you get the collapse of something like the Levitt group erm which you 'll be aware of perhaps was the er sort of boxing and impresario type route that was taken by the man in the dicky bow . |
| 11 | We had enough of Blobby yesterday , without any mention of him on the programme again . |
| 12 | Ever since Ben had first found that single mention of him in the journals . |
| 13 | Although there is no mention of it on the map , I could swear that the tiny loch has a crannog in it . |
| 14 | When a recording is ‘ live ’ , as this one is , it should say so on the cover , and if that 's too difficult or exhausting there should be mention of it at the beginning of the booklet . |
| 15 | ‘ That was n't in my contract , and there was no mention of it in the programme Giles and Cavell have outlined for me either . ’ |
| 16 | It is unrealistic to expect Novell to spend money to develop Unix for the good of everybody at the expense of their own company . |
| 17 | It is unrealistic to expect Novell to spend money to develop Unix for the good of everybody at the expense of their own company . ’ |
| 18 | However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all . |
| 19 | The photograph of her with the older woman was well done , though . |
| 20 | A photograph of him as the Devil ( not in female disguise ) shows him poised on one foot , the other leg bent so that his whole body is tilted eccentrically . |
| 21 | I did not understand German , and was not interested in the photograph of myself at the top , but bottom left , was a small black-and-white snapshot of Joan and the children . |
| 22 | There 'd been a photograph of it in the paper , across someone 's hedge , its wings in a tree . |
| 23 | The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet . |
| 24 | Indeed , the irony of someone with the surname Quin introducing a debate on the north-east should be borne in mind . |
| 25 | He opened his eyes and cleared his mind of Camels and Albatrosses and Pups and Tripehounds , cleared his mind of everything but the thought of her beautiful body and the beautiful things she was doing with it , and for the next minute or so they were almost flying . |
| 26 | Morgan found confirmation of it in the fact that the people he had studied in most detail — the Iroquois — happened to be matrilineal . |
| 27 | You refer to a recent study of mine on the success and failure of leveraged buyouts . |
| 28 | The two friends took stock of everything in the immediate vicinity . |
| 29 | One reason must be the inevitable distancing of oneself from the intensity and nearness of the experience . |
| 30 | Why did n't he just go while she could still maintain some degree of composure , this deliberate distancing of herself from the rapture that had possessed her before the telephone rang ? |